Posted on 02/22/2016 8:57:26 AM PST by Impala64ssa
A cornerstone of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders's campaign is "free college tuition" for all. At least one college student in the country thinks it’s a bad idea — and she wants you to know why:
Nothing worth having comes easy.
Jordan Morgan, a 20-year-old student, wife and mother, also understands this reality:
When you get down to it… is anything actually free?
Writing for Odyssey, she said the concept of "free" anything holds great implications. Here are excerpts from her article:
Something that has weighed heavily on my mind is the fact that most millennials are hoping, and voting, for free college tuition. What does free college tuition actually do for society as a whole, and not just for the individual?
It may make a student debt free, but free tuition as a whole could "cost the United States $70 billion per year", according to Fox News. If you aren’t paying for your classes, then who is? Where is that $70 billion coming from? Taxpayers.
She's concerned about the impact on the value of a college degree:
If college becomes free, that means more people going to college. […] If more people go to college, the value of a college degree will decrease. […] What will the value of a degree be when even more people have it? It is simply the law of supply and demand.
Students would get a free bachelor's degree, but in order to set themselves apart, they would need to continue on with graduate school. […] How would free college help the societal issue we are already facing of students graduating only to discover they have to do more school?
She also thinks it would influence how hard students work:
College is hard work. You work hard in college because it is important to you. You work hard because it isn’t free. If college were free, students would become nonchalant about their work and their grades. […]
I mean, when you break those cheap sunglasses, you don’t stress because you can just go get some other ones.
Jordan says free college would impact both employees and employers:
In the end, who do you think would be the better employee or boss, someone who worked hard and is proud of what they did, or someone that had it handed to them?
As the old saying goes, "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch." 20-year-old Jordan Morgan already has that figured out.
A bright light she is in a sea of dimwit bulbless heads.
The socialist Bernie would say the rich will pay for it through higher taxes.
God bless this girl.
Impressive!
A good person to have waiting in the sidelines for our side before November.
“A bright light she is in a sea of dimwit bulbless heads.”
As a...”20-year-old student, wife and mother”...sounds like she’s learned a lot already.
50 years ago, that was the norm, and at least she’s MARRIED!
Just like there was going to be free health care that has clobbered social security and medicare funds, and has cost more money to everyone above the poverty level. Promises from liberals or socialists, (same thing), are there to put out a fire before they start another one whether they put it out with water or gasoline. They always seem to be short of water.
TANSTAAFL
If you didn/t pay for it someone else did.
Anyone who votes for that guy will definitely “feel the burn” when they find out they are considered wealthy.
Humans are most biologically suited to bearing chldren in their 20s. Societal norms of marriage and childbearing into the 30s and 40s are against how people are designed. Seems this young lady has her priorities in better order than society in general, not that society has set the bar particularly high.
TANSTAAFL
“...a 20-year-old student, wife and mother,...”
It seems as though she already has a taste of reality and real life. (hint = real life is hard)
Not the fairytale ‘everyone gets a trophy’ life that her peers are still living in.
http://theodysseyonline.com/west-florida/college-isnt-meant-to-be-free/307016
I'd encourage folks to click on it and read. There is a hilarious Bernie Sanders cartoon that I'd post here if I knew how. But it is hilarious, and deserves to go viral.
The 40 wealthiest universities in the USA control something like $415 BILLION in endowments. All tax free.
Schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford have anywhere from $1.5-$2.0 million in endowments PER student. They have become giant hedge funds with colleges attached to them.
I want to hear Bernie say - I am going to TAX endowments of these universities to pay for my “free” college plans.
Let the lefties and elitists at these schools then respond
My 22 year old daughter said it best.
Bernie wants to give me free education and as a full time worker I will pay higher taxes to support my free education?
No disrespect to enlisted personnel, but the pay differential was huge back then, too.
I wonder if college profs and administrators would be ok with free college if the profs and administrators were required to contribute to the freeness by accepting $40,000 a year salaries?
Up until that moment, she liked Bernie. I then had to explain to her that Hillary would do the same thing, but lie about how she won’t raise your taxes.
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